Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.

Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!

On a tangentially related note, anyone else ever felt that English-speaking observers tend to regard fellow countries in the Anglosphere rather worse than comparative economic data suggest, simply because they are more easily aware of their domestic disputes? Conversely we regard Scandinavia etc. rather more highly simply because their rhetorical hyperbole are less available to us and we see only their statistics.

On a tangentially related note, anyone else ever felt that English-speaking observers tend to regard fellow countries in the Anglosphere rather worse than comparative economic data suggest, simply because they are more easily aware of their domestic disputes? Conversely we regard Scandinavia etc. rather more highly simply because their rhetorical hyperbole are less available to us and we see only their statistics.

On a tangentially related note, anyone else ever felt that English-speaking observers tend to regard fellow countries in the Anglosphere rather worse than comparative economic data suggest, simply because they are more easily aware of their domestic disputes? Conversely we regard Scandinavia etc. rather more highly simply because their rhetorical hyperbole are less available to us and we see only their statistics.

Yes. Also many smaller Euro countries have national languages largely unspoken outside of the borders. So the accounts of such countries will usually be written or authored by a native speaker, with little chance of a thorough external review or critique

On a tangentially related note, anyone else ever felt that English-speaking observers tend to regard fellow countries in the Anglosphere rather worse than comparative economic data suggest, simply because they are more easily aware of their domestic disputes? Conversely we regard Scandinavia etc. rather more highly simply because their rhetorical hyperbole are less available to us and we see only their statistics.

Very likely, we do not lack in idiots and populists in our politics.

I don't think there's a country which could claim otherwise.
Well... they could certainly claim...

On a tangentially related note, anyone else ever felt that English-speaking observers tend to regard fellow countries in the Anglosphere rather worse than comparative economic data suggest, simply because they are more easily aware of their domestic disputes? Conversely we regard Scandinavia etc. rather more highly simply because their rhetorical hyperbole are less available to us and we see only their statistics.

Yes. Also many smaller Euro countries have national languages largely unspoken outside of the borders. So the accounts of such countries will usually be written or authored by a native speaker, with little chance of a thorough external review or critique

AKA the reason Hungary has been able to make big strides towards dictatorship and fascism without the rest of the EU really caring that much. At least not until this entire Euro crisis is over.

On a tangentially related note, anyone else ever felt that English-speaking observers tend to regard fellow countries in the Anglosphere rather worse than comparative economic data suggest, simply because they are more easily aware of their domestic disputes? Conversely we regard Scandinavia etc. rather more highly simply because their rhetorical hyperbole are less available to us and we see only their statistics.

Yes. Also many smaller Euro countries have national languages largely unspoken outside of the borders. So the accounts of such countries will usually be written or authored by a native speaker, with little chance of a thorough external review or critique